UK doom/sludge heavyweights Sea Bastard announce new studio album »Cyclopean« and release first single & music video »Prophet Of The People«!
Brighton, UK based doom/sludge metal band Sea Bastard has announced their third studio album, »Cyclopean«, scheduled for release on October 30th, 2026 via Road To Masochist.
Watch a music video for the album’s first single »Prophet Of The People« below!
Tracklist:
01. Dark Altar
02. Entombed With The Pharoah
03. Prophet Of The People
04. Nameless Purgatory
Courtesy of Imperative PR:
Formed in 2011 by four musicians with a wealth of previous experience on the scene, Sea Bastard made rapid early progress. Their self-titled debut album appeared in 2012 and the follow up, »Scabrous«, was hot on its heels in 2013. The sheer weight and baleful intent of their malicious blend of suppurating sludge and decimating doom also saw them invited to tour with the likes of Witchsorrow and Primitive Man, as well as being selected to appear at high profile festivals like Desertfest, Damnation and Temples. However, after split releases with Keeper (2015) and Primitive Man (2016), Sea Bastard retreated into hibernation while the band members focussed on other projects dear to their decaying hearts. It took the request of a friend, diagnosed with a terminal illness, to reunite them in 2021 – something no one could refuse – and make them set sail on their polluted, poisoned waters once more. And now, after five long years, they are ready to invite us on another journey into their kingdom of torpid madness, with their third harrowing album… »Cyclopean«.
Photo credits: Kan Lailey
Nerve-shredding howls of feedback usher us into the subterranean rumble of »Cyclopean«’s first track, »Dark Altar«. You are carried onwards upon a thick, primal ocean of cloying darkness, the relentless earthshaking bass and gnarled, grizzled guitars bleeding your life from you like overzealous medieval physicians. Your desire to move, to think or even breath are all lost in the soporific, congealing tides. But Sea Bastard’s vast, sprawling tracks all cover a multitude of territories in their wanderings and an eruption of rage and spiralling chaos awaits, a razor’s edge of fear slicing into the dreamless slumber. Then, emerging from the residue of shadows, comes »Entombed With The Pharaoh«, full of cavernous, malignant menace; the bass weaving threads of exotic atmosphere between the head-caving riffs and lich-like vocals. Nightmares lurk in this cunningly constructed maze-like mausoleum, even as it settles into a dark, rotten and mesmeric groove… and escape from the pyramid leads only to the arms of the »Prophet Of The People«, a song with an imperious swagger and untouchable, unquestionable power. It slides into a morass of wickedness, irresistible and heavier than God, dragging you down beneath the surface, where, far from the light a new sonic realm unfurls – bleak, broken and bereft of hope. Finally, crawling from an unnerving sense of emptiness, the formless beast of aggression and terror that is »Nameless Purgatory«… a last chapter that offers no return to the light, no respite from agony and confusion. Ungraspable, unknowable it stretches out before you like the plains of Hell and drags you, doomed and damned, past the limits of your endurance. Sea Bastard did not return to play around. This is doom and sludge operating in the farthest badlands of the genres and will leave you hollowed out and shellshocked.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Paul “Win” Winstanley (Code, Grave Lines, King Leviathan etc), every note of »Cyclopean« is imbued with an impossible, unbearable weight; while the artwork of guitarist Oliver “Irongiant” Hill channels all the madness and soul crushing desolation that informs this torturous work. Set to be released by Road To Masochist on October 30th, on Double Black 12″ vinyl and CD, »Cyclopean« is the heaviest album you will hear this year, in many different ways. There is no coming back from this.
Sea Bastard is:
Steve Patton – Bass
Ian “Monty” Montgomery – Vocals
Oliver “Irongiant” Hill – Guitars
George Leaver – Drums
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